Uriah Forrest

Uriah Forrest (1756-6 July 1805) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MD 3) from 4 March 1793 to 8 November 1794, succeeding John Francis Mercer and preceding Benjamin Edwards.

Biography
Uriah Forrest was born in Lenardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1756, and he lost a leg at the Battle of Brandywine and was wounded again at the Battle of Germantown while serving in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In 1783, he established a tobacco export business in Georgetown, and he went on to serve as a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1794, when he resigned, having missed almost 80% of all roll call votes. In 1790, he bought up several lands and sold them to the federal government for the construction of Washington DC, and he became Mayor of Georgetown in 1791. He died in 1805.